User talk:Michael Zimmermann

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Contents 1 Welcome to the Wikipedia 2 Guantanamo Bay 3 Guantánamo/Guantanamo-related move/redirects 4 Me 262 5 Delta Flight 5191 6 Comair Flight 5191 7 Userboxes 8 Schosskirche 9 simple links 10 WikiProject Munich 11 Palais Strousberg 12 'Big Ben' 13 L'Avion 14 EU page 15 Council of the EU 16 Nice work... 17 German currency 18 Isreali Wine

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[[User:Sam Spade|Vote Sam Spade for Arbiter!]] 14:18, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Guantanamo Bay

Someone moved it in a way that was against the consensus and someone else just set up a new poll on what had already been asked before. Please come again. ROGNNTUDJUU! 15:21, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Please could you revisit the vote page just to confirm if it is option 1 or 2 that you'd prefer to support? Thanks, --Rebroad 18:26, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Guantánamo/Guantanamo-related move/redirects

Greetings! I hope you're well. In light of prior discussion and to round out recent moves and redirects/DABs regarding Guantánamo/Guantanamo-related articles, I have proposed another ... with a twist. Please weigh in, and thanks for your co-operation! E Pluribus Anthony | talk | 01:08, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Me 262

You are correct.

I got the two dates swapped in my notes. I have fixed the information. I took some of the info out of the introduction, and added them where it was more pertinant.

Many thanks.

[edit] Delta Flight 5191

But don't you think it would be better to rename it to Delta Air Lines Flight 5191 to match the standard of other Delta fatalities? Jomi 13:05, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Agree, pls. see your talk page for further discussion. MikeZ 13:15, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comair Flight 5191

Hey its actually an inferrence. according to http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5290760.stm the aircraft was delivered in jan 2001. and on http://www.airfleets.net/flottecie/Comair%20(Delta%20Connection)-active-crj-70.htm it shows N431CA is the only aircraft delivered to Comair in January 2001. I'll go ahead and cite it there.

[edit] Userboxes

Hallo Michael, I'm a novice at doing somethings on Wiki, I just look around the other Users pages and copy what the most experienced Wikipedians do on their pages. But sometimes it takes a bit of searching !! Germans are my favorite Europeans outside of Ireland, I hope that other Micheal wins the F1 World drivers Championship. Freundlich danke and a bit of Irish, Go raibh maith agat Culnacreann 20:52, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Schosskirche

Thanks for the mote. No, I do not agree. We should use an English translation for several reasons. First is that most English speakers find a text harder to comprehend when non-English terms are included in the text. Second, the term itself is a nickname for the actual name of the church, and so is not a proper noun. In English practice, we almost always retain only proper nouns and then often modify these. Third, most of the English literature on the the Reformation uses the term "Castle Church" or "University Church" for the University's congregation. I'm not against a footnote with the original form, perhaps even the full, formal name of the Schlosskirche. --CTSWyneken^(talk) 10:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] simple links

Hello. Please note that you don't need to write [[banknote|banknotes]], as you did in normal distribution. Just writing [[banknote]]s makes the whole word---not just the part in brackets---appear as a clickable link, and it links to the article whose name is inside the brackets. Similarly with [[hyphen]]ated, [[logic]]al, [[cat]]s, [[evolution]]ary, [[rabbi]]nical, [[Egypt]]ian, [[dogma]]tic, [[apocrypa]]l, etc. The more complicated thing can be used for things like [[philosophy|philosophies]]. Michael Hardy 19:33, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Munich

[edit] Palais Strousberg

Sorry for reverting all of your edits on the above, let me explain. A few months ago I put IG Farben Building through WP:FAC. In the course of that FAC a few things were picked up:-

1. Not wiki-linking years, only occasional significant dates.
2. Not using ß for ss.
3. Anglicising addresses.

I can't remember where the policies are that dictated these changes; if you like I will dig them up for you. My position however is that I know I was asked to make these changes and it is considered by community consensus to be the 'correct' way of doing things, so my future articles have used this style. Rather than reverting you again, perhaps you could review your edits to the article. Cheers. --Mcginnly | Natter 16:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Follow up I've been digging around looking for ß policy - seems there's several proposals such as Wikipedia:German-speaking Wikipedians' notice board/Umlaut and ß and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (standard letters with diacritics) all of which appear to be leaning towards ss. Also, according to German spelling reform of 1996 ss should be used after short vowels. I think we can agree the 'a' in strasse is a short vowel and so the ss is approriate even in german. Gruss. --Mcginnly | Natter 17:26, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 'Big Ben'

Thanks for your message. Yes, I inadvertently omitted the imperial measurements when reorganising the material. I think your calculations were correct, although there is some confusion (in my mind at least) over the merits of the long and short ton. I have included both measurements in the hope that someone more knowledgeable than me on such matters to delete as/if appropriate.

Best wishes,

Mdcollins1984 23:20, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] L'Avion

I wanted to let you know why I reverted your edit on the L'Avion article. You included Privatair in the list of similar services to L'Avion, Eos, Maxjet and Silverjet. However, as Privatair does charters and flies under the banner of other airlines (KLM, Lufthansa, etc), they are different from the other 4 who sell direct to the public and sell their own seats. Aphenry 19:06, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] EU page

Hi Michael, I´ve noticed your correction on the Airbus image at the EU article. There is a discussion about keeping this image and many other of the current article layout. If you are interested, join the talk or have an eye on it. Would be great. This is the version [1] to keep, if you want to... all the best Lear 21 05:59, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Michael. Thanks for your input to the discussion on graphics. I've taken the liberty of deleting the obvious candidates identified by the vote. I don't think we have any major differences of opinion, but if you feel strongly about any individual item I've removed, please put it back! On a positive note, we no longer get the warning at the top of the article about it's size. Countersubject 00:14, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello. I think the English version of the motto is much more official than the Latin one as: 1) the Latin version doesn't appear anywhere on the official europa.eu site, while the English version appears in many places; 2) the English version appears in the Constitutional Treaty while the Latin one doesn't; 3) English is an official and working language of the EU while Latin is neither an official nor working language. Luca Italy 12:14, 2 February 2007 (CET)

Hi, sorry to intrude, but I might be able to cast some light on this (if not, just ignore me!). As I understand it, the Latin version was accepted by the President of the European Parliament in 2000 (see the article on EU symbols). As Michael has said, Latin was chosen because the EU is multi-lingual, and Latin is Europe's historic common language. Since then, another motto has been written into the proposed constitution, in each of the national languages. It's this version that's appeared on the commission's website. If the constitution is eventually ratified, then it will become the 'official' motto. Until then, the Latin motto is the only such. Countersubject 11:44, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Council of the EU

Hello.

>>> Michael Zimmermann: your cited statement "the working languages most frequently used at the General Secretariat of the Council are English and French" is not excluding German as the third working language!

As for that, it is not excluding Finnish either.... Why then not mention also Finnish as the 4th working language of the Council? :-)

Cheers, Luca Italy 15:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nice work...

...with Template:Languages of the European Union. It is much more easily manageable now. --Michkalas 21:22, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks :-) MikeZ 22:00, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] German currency

While I agree with your move on German Reichsmark and German Rentenmark in principle, I must tell you that this has been discussed and the decision was not to move (even though I was in favor of the move). If moved, then there are tens of German-speaking currency articles that span across many states before a unified Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, and A-H Empire. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 08:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

Ops, thanks for your information. I wasn't aware of that vote (and I'm not pleased with it's outcome either). MikeZ 08:13, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Isreali Wine

Do you have any views on the neutrality of the Isreali Wine Article? Please could you reply because i am considering a rewrite.